Posted by River1924 on March 8, 2006, at 10:35:44
In reply to Re: buprenorphine re-scheduling?! » River1924, posted by sukarno on March 8, 2006, at 7:55:55
Well, the DEA number isn't hard to find since all my doctors have it printed on their scripts.
But, as for my friend, xanax seemed to be the only thing that helped her but she never had a "diagnosis" that would allow it. SSRI would give her such bad insomnia (perhaps hypomania) that she would go weeks with only an hour of sleep per night. Her body was very eccentric in its reactions. Low doses of lithium almost killed her. Tylenol would make her (drowsy (but not sleepy) for 24 hours.) Looking back, she got so little sleep that she had hypnogogic hullucinations and waking REM periods.
Her mother was a valium addict and her sister was an alcoholic and she had psychological problems (probably from being raped by her stepfather from ages 4 to 7.) All that gave doctors reasons not to treat her. Zoloft and counseling was about it for her. Plus, she seemed jolly and was funny even when she was suicidal. {I have the benefit of looking stern even when I'm happy... which doesn't help socially but it helps in the doctors office.} Plus, I've been told by women that male psychiatrists tend to dismiss women's problems. We lost touch after she married a Masonic homophobic sexist 50 year old man when she was 23. That was just too creepy for me considering her history.
Oddly, I hate to sound like the guy who runs the biopsychiatry-mood brightener site, xanax worked too well for her. It made her stable, sleep normally, and it made her happy. I think doctors worry about that. They are looking for Freud's everyday normal unhappiness. :<> Of course now that she was caught writing her own scripts, she'll never get it.
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